Source code location: ./xmlserialization/xmlserializationdriver2.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace XmlSerializationTest
{
    class XmlSerializationDriver
    {
	[STAThread]
	static void Main(string[] args)
	{
            XmlSerializer   ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof (User));
            StringBuilder   sb = new StringBuilder();
            StringWriter    swr = new StringWriter(sb);
            XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(); 

            User jdoe               = new User();
            jdoe.FirstName          = "John";
            jdoe.LastName           = "Doe";
            jdoe.Age                = 30;
            jdoe.Active             = true;
            jdoe.RegistrationDate   = DateTime.UtcNow;

            ns.Add ("myns", "urn:sample-profile-urn");

            ser.Serialize(swr, jdoe, ns);
            swr.Close();

            Console.Write (sb.ToString());
	}
    }
}